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Award Winning Finalist in the National Indy Excellence Awards for 2023Sara is a bossy cat who likes to get her way. Her best friend, Sam, is a cuddly older bunny with spotted fur and wise advice. One day they find a shiny red ball that's stuck between their pantry's wall and sagging floor. They can't get it unstuck no matter how hard they try.When Sara and Sam's human, Meg, retrieves the toy for them, they spend many joyous moments playing with it. But now Meg is interested in the ball too! There's something inside it -- something she thinks another human might want.Sara is upset. She doesn't want to share. At least not until she learns why someone wants their new treasure and discovers how good it can feel to make somebody happy.

The Hero's Journey in Film interprets twelve Hollywood movies in a mythical context, using Joseph Campbell's model of the hero's journey: Departure-Initiation-Return. It also weaves in concepts from the related fields of archetypal psychology and perennial philosophy. The book is highly useful . . .As a text for teaching classes on the hero's journey model, appropriate for advanced high school, undergraduate, graduate, corporate leadership, and continuing education programs.For writers, screenwriters, and others generally interested in stories portraying the stages of the hero quest.For counselors, therapists, psychologists, and others in the helping professions who need a fresh approach to working with clients in the midst of major life change. For anyone needing a practical guide to personal growth, self-discovery, and spiritual transformation, beyond the confines of traditional counseling and religion.

Beginning with a hilarious account of the foibles and follies of a body that has expired before the author has, renowned NDE researcher, Kenneth Ring, in this collection of essays takes the reader on an exhilarating ride on the train whose destination is death -- yet the journey is anything but morbid or depressing. On the contrary, in these genial, entertaining, and often witty essays, Ring invites us to ponder not just the hardships of facing death (he does not shy away from the anguish of dying), but what we can learn about how to live fully before we die. He even considers ways to ease the transition into death by the use of psychedelics. But much of the book distills what Ring has learned from his long career of researching near-death experiences, and the promise they hold out for us of a life beyond this one.Although Ring can write with a light touch, the book also grapples with serious issues, such as the ethics of the right-to-die movement, the epidemic of loneliness in modern American life, and the views of various literary and other writers who feel, unlike Ring, that life is a dead end and the idea of an afterlife is pure fantasy. Finally, you will find in some of these essays deeply moving stories of people dealing with death that may make you cry. And yet, the book leaves one feeling upbeat and hopeful about life. Hop on the train and enjoy the ride -- while you're still alive!

A fluke meeting in Paris brings the past into focus for two very different strangers. Gary Silverman, whose encounter with Rafael Jerome in 1949 led to a lifelong sense of loss, and Jeremy Jerome, clueless about his father's misadventure in flashy Hollywood, circa '49, who must deal with the consequences once Gary discloses misalliances.Always the dutiful son, Jeremy is determined to unearth his father's true legacy. He follows his intuition that takes him to Ottawa then Calgary to find decades-old answers to a family secret.Rafael Jerome plumbs the depths of unrequited love along with the deficits that so often unfurl moving forward.

It's December 2020, and Karen Wasoba is so weak she collapses to the floor with flu-like symptoms. Her husband rushes her to the hospital where she thinks she will stay for a few hours of treatment. It's probably just the flu, she reassures herself. Even if it's Covid-19, I'm a healthy sixty-plus-year-old. I'll be OK. But then the doctor breaks the news: It is Covid-19, and she is not OK.She is admitted into the intensive care unit, her lungs fill with fluid until her oxygen levels become dangerously low, and she is eventually intubated, kept under sedation, and put on a ventilator for the next thirty days. Every day is a struggle to survive as a cytokine storm rages through her body."What you do not want is for the hospital to keep her on a ventilator and hope she recovers on her own," a friend in the medical profession warns her family.Banned from seeing Karen because of Covid restrictions, her friends and family do whatever they can to help. Prayer chains are started, meals are brought to her ailing husband who is also struck by the disease, and her children scramble to find alternative treatments that might save their mother's life. Seven weeks later, Karen finally awakens to find herself completely helpless, her body so weak she can barely move or speak. It will be a long journey back to health, but she is highly motivated! The Fight for My Life: My Covid Story brings readers into the real experiences of a Covid-19 survivor and her family, where all hope seems to be lost until the strength of family, friends, and faith prevail.

Anna Comis was born in the ancient Italian village, Casada. For centuries, her ancestors had inhabited the "beautiful little country" surrounded by the Dolomite Mountains. After her family relocated, her parents' stories of their cherished native village continued to connect Anna with her birthplace. Years later, driven by a desire to preserve her heritage, Anna began collecting documents, anecdotes, articles, and old photographs. Casada: A History of an Italian Village and Its People contains the fruits of her exhaustive research.Half a world away, Isabel Comis Degenaars also grew up hearing stories of Casada shared by her father, whose parents immigrated to America in the 1920s in search of work and the chance to start a new life. A 2010 visit to her grandparents' ancestral home inspired her to translate her cousin Anna's book into English. She also relates her own family's challenging journey from the green mountains of Italy into the dark coal mines of Pennsylvania including research of early mining life in the coal patch of Francis Mine.From two cousins separated by distance and culture, comes a rich history of shared lineage set in a land that continues to inspire and haunt those drawn to its verdant hills and valleys.This is a book for those who have been drawn to their heritage -- to their history and their families and to the land in which they came from. It's a book for story-lovers, for Italian immigrants, for anyone who has ever felt pulled to his or her past for unknown reasons. Above all, Casada: A History of an Italian Village and Its People is a book for those who long for a return to a family that seems almost lost now. It is a book for those who wish to return home.